Tommy Wright happy to play mind games before final battle

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Up close: Wright hopes being in the cup final will bring the supporters backBill Murray/Scottish News and Sport

Paul Forsyth

Published at 12:01AM, May 16 2014

For a man with no experience of leading his team into a match as momentous as tomorrow’s William Hill Scottish Cup final against Dundee United, Tommy Wright appears to be well enough schooled in the dark art of managerial mind games.

In the course of a conversation yesterday in which he was keen to play down United’s lack of experience, the St Johnstone manager predicted that his counterpart, Jackie McNamara, would select neither Ryan Gauld nor John Souttar for the season-ending showdown at Celtic Park.